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88. John HADEN52 was born on 7 February 1921 in Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas.23 He served in the military in 1942 in World War II (Marines Air Corps).48 He served in the military in 1950 in Korean War (Marines Air Corps).48 John died on 12 October 2010 at the age of 89 in Texas.
John was a very special person. He was interested in family and shared much with me in my endeavors to trace the Haden family. The Hadens were not generally a "close" family and did not always stay in touch with each other. John's family with two sons and a daughter, and my own with two sons and a daughter, were alike in many ways, including the fact that we were close-knit and proud of our family relationships. Both John, and my husband Don, had married, and moved away from their respective families to raise their own children. They were both hard-working, gentle, kind men, who left a never-to-be-forgetten legacy to their children and grandchildren. John had a definite influence on his nephew Don - the love of airplanes and flying and the dedication to their families was a part of that influence.
John graduated from Ladonia High School in the Class of 1938; May 30, 1947 Ladonia News.
Ladonia News; Friday, Sep 15, 1939: John Haden is visiting his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Joe Haden, for a few days before returning to Austin where he will continue his studies in the University.
Ladonia News; Friday, Jan 4, 1940: Ben Ed Fry and John Haden left Tuesday for Austin where they will resume their work at the State University.
16 Feb 1942 World War II Draft Registration
Ladonia News; Friday, Dec 11, 1942.
Ladonia News: Friday Dec 11, 1942.
World War II and Korean Was Veteran. Captain in U.S. M.C. Fighter Pilot. Was shot down and injured during WWII. Received Distinguished Flying Cross "For heroism and extraordinary achievement in aerial flight as Pilot of a Plane in Marine Fighter Squadron 214 during operations against enemy aggressor forces in Korea on 6 October 1951. Responding to an urgent call for close air support when friendly ground forces were subjected to concentrated fire from a hostile battalion command post and four heavily defended artillery emplacements, Captain Haden skillfully led his flight over hazardous terrain to the target area in reduced visibility and initiated a series of daring attacks against the enemy. Despite intense hostile automatic-weapons fire, he continued to press determined bombing, napalm and strafing assaults, inflicting many casualties on the enemy and destroying the command post together with the artillery pieces. By his courage, skilled airmanship and devotion to duty, Captain Haden struck a damaging blow to the enemy and upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service." For the President, C. S. Thomas, Sect of the Navy.
Listed in World War II Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard Casualties, 1941-45, on Ancestry.com.
1957 Austin, TX City Directory
John's mother Audrey wrote several notes on pads identified as being from Wichita Falls in the early 1960's when John's parents were living with John and Merle there. One of the notepads has the heading:
A little over 50 years ago, my great grandfather, our great grandfather died in the little town of Ladonia. A few months after his passing our grandfather was walking down the street and he overheard some of the men saying, "There goes Old Man Haden".
John HADEN and Classy Merle LORINO were married on 6 December 1942 in Houston, Harris County, Texas.48,52 Classy Merle LORINO, daughter of Anthony Bernard "Tony" LORINO and Ivy DUNBAR, was born on 29 April 1920 in Houston, Harris County, Texas.48 She died on 25 April 2011 at the age of 90 in Bedford, Tarrant County, Texas.
Texas Birth Certificate #20-668
1930 Census. Houston, Harris Co, TX, Hh 152
1940 Census. Houston, Harris Co, TX, Hh 105
1940 University of Texas at Austin, Classy Merle Lorino listed with Class of 1943.
Published in Star-Telegram [Fort Worth] on April 27, 2011
John HADEN and Classy Merle LORINO had the following children:

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In the spirit of "If you're going to make one, you might as well make a dozen," I dealt with my daughters' dearth of warm leggings and autumn skirts with the purge of all the sweaters currently residing in my stash of clothing for reconstruction. Here they are modeled by the daughters performing what is possibly their favorite indoor pastime:
I sewed the leggings from sweater sleeves, a project which took a while to get right but which outcome I am quite happy about now, and the skirts from the torsos of those same sweaters (check out my sweater skirt tutorial over at Crafting a Green World). Since the skirt takes up most of the torso of the sweater and the leggings use the sleeves, shoulders, and the turtleneck if there is one, the set actually results in a very small amount of wasted sweater. It would only leave a little more waste if you sewed leggings and two diaper covers.
The girls have almost the same waist size, although Willow is quite a bit taller than Sydney, but the nice thing about the leggings is that they cuff easily (much more easily than the wide-legged trousers that are popular now, and also much more easily than pajama pants, the cuffs of which I actually have to tack in place), so both girls can wear the same skirts and leggings--I always cut the elastic at Sydney's size, because Willow doesn't mind a little extra stretch, but Sydney probably wouldn't be that stoked by clothes that constantly fell off her body as she pranced:
I had some partial sweaters in my stash that I'd already cut up somewhat in some way or another, so not everything is mitchy-matchy, don't worry:
And I'm certainly not going to require, or even encourage, them to wear the mitchy-matchy combo. The orange/pink/red/purple leggings and skirt looked pretty cute together, for instance, but this matching combo isn't really doing it for me:
Stash busting, mental challenge, calming handwork, and two comfy, well-dressed kids: here's to another happy week.
P.S. Check out Craft Gossip, which picked up my sweater skirt tutorial this weekend. Must start working on the tute for the matching leggings now.


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It was July 10, 1971 and we were in the heart of the cold war. The U.S. was running a super secret satellite spying operation code-named Hexagon. This was long before the days of digital cameras and Google earth. Spy photos were stored on Kodak film and when the time came for them to be sent back to earth, they were jettisoned from the satellite via a capsule called a Hexagon recovery vehicle. Unfortunately, on this particular day things went very wrong. The parachute carrying the RV didn't deploy correctly and literally tore off at the swivel. The RV hit the surface of the ocean at 2600 g's and sank in 16,000 feet of water. This is just a piece of a riveting story that can be found in newly declassified CIA documents. What follows is a story of a rescue mission that reaches record depths and is mingled with excitement and disappointment.
According to the CIA "Memorandum for the Record", it was decided to bring in the Navy for a recovery attempt. This was no easy task. There were several challenges outlined in the memorandum:
a. The ability to locate the impact area accurately.
b. The amount of damage caused by the impact and the corrosive
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c. No object of this size had been actively searched for and
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d. The Trieste II had not gone below 10,000 feet.
Three recovery attempts were made. The first failed attempt was November 3, 1971. The second failed attempt was November 30, 1971. The third attempt was a little more successful. On April 25, 1972, the Trieste II successfully found and grasped the RV capsule. Unfortunately, due to the pressure changes while rising to the surface, the film basically shredded and they were only able to recover a remnant. The end result was not ideal but the CIA remained pretty optimistic despite the circumstance. It appears what the Navy was able to accomplish in the midst of much turmoil proved to be an encouraging turn of events. The memorandum ends with the following.
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Borrowing heavily from earlier botanical illustrations, the text of Hill's book helped to introduce the new Linnaean plant classification system to an English audience. The book was well received despite Mr. Hill's reputation as controversial and argumentative. Trained as an apothecary, Hill worked as an actor, landscape planner, plant grower, and author of serious and vulgar literature. After producing a number of unprofitable botanical volumes, he turned his attentions to the more lucrative business of medicine (he managed a medical degree from Edinburgh). Hill crafted potions and snake oils to cure all types of ailments, marketing them as miraculous cures. Despite Hill's prickly personality and confounding career choices, one can't doubt his actual talent as a draftsman, engraver and plant lover. The botanical engravings he produced are arguably some of the finest of the 18th century. We are pleased to have such a wide selection.
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My 8 Favorite Christmas Beers
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Editor's Note: On the 12th day of Christmas beers, we asked Serious Beer columnist Jonathan Moxey to pick his 8 top Christmas beers. Take it away, Jonathan!
We all have holiday traditions. Every December I watch Die Hard and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, spend hours driving across Missouri to visit family and friends, and then spend many more hours sharing big Christmas beers with said family and friends. I've tried countless bottles over the years, but I always come back to my favorites. Most don't stray far from the big Belgian-style beers I enjoy during the other 11 months of the year. Subtle levels of spices usually set them apart, and "subtle" is the key word. (If a beer approaches mulled territory, I'll stick to eggnog.)
This year I'm sharing my 8 top Christmas beers here. Are they among your favorites, too?
De Struise Brouwers Tsjeeses
De Struise Tsjeeses (10.0% ABV) is the Christmas beer I'm most likely to drink year-round. There's a little baking spice in the aroma, but otherwise it's just as seasonally appropriate in late March as it is in mid-December. I love the candied orange, plum, and boozy aromas. The first sip brings sweet maltiness and ripe fruit, but it finishes so dry. This year I also picked up the darker-hued, barrel-aged Reserva version, which adds a layer of oak, earth and pepper. It's tasty as well, but it doesn't finish as dry and the wood obscures the fruit a bit. I'll probably stick with the original.
Karl Strauss Brewing Co. Two Tortugas Holiday Quadruple Ale
Karl Strauss' Two Tortugas Holiday Quadruple Ale (11.1% ABV) is a new addition for me this year. I'd heard plenty of friends rave about last year's Parrot in a Palm Tree, the brewery's first installment in its "12 Days of Christmas San Diego Style" series, so this one was on my wish list even before I found out it took bronze at GABF this year. The beer is massive in the glass, with aromas of rich dark chocolate, prune, fig and other dark fruit. There's a subtle layer of spice over Belgian Candi sugar and plenty of warming alcohol. It tastes stellar now, but there's plenty packed into each bottle to unwind over time. It's sure to get better and mellower for Christmases to come.
The Bruery 4 Calling Birds
I missed the boat on The Bruery's Partridge in a Pear Tree, the initial beer in their "12 Days/Years of Christmas" series, but the follow-ups have been staples in my yuletide drinking. This year's 4 Calling Birds (11.0% ABV) opens up with big aromas of Candi sugar, banana bread and chocolate. As the beer warms, ginger becomes pronounced in the aroma. Molasses and alcohol come first in flavor, with ginger and cinnamon following the booze. Grab one to try now and some to stash away in the cellar.
Tröegs Brewing Co. Mad Elf
My nostalgic Christmas choice is Tröegs Mad Elf (11.0% ABV). The aroma reminds me of the cherry-flavored candy canes we hung on the tree growing up. Brewed with Pennsylvania honey, a sack full of sweet and sour cherries, and a spicy Belgian yeast, Mad Elf is best enjoyed from a magnum shared with friends.
Brasserie Fantôme De Noel
For me, opening a bottle of Fantôme is a lot like opening a plain-looking package only to find something beautiful and unexpected inside. Regardless of what's on the label, what's in the glass is a surprise. And it's almost always wonderful. The bottle of Fantôme de Noel (10.0% ABV) I opened this year revealed a hazy, blush-tinged amber beer that smelled like cranberries and Sweet Tarts. It has a pleasant level of sourness over a sweet, rich caramel and slightly oxidized malt. This bottle was a couple of years old, and any spices have all but faded. The roast I'd noticed in previous bottles was subdued.
Anchor Brewing Co. Our Special Ale
Anchor Brewing's Our Special Ale (5.5% ABV) is the most sessionable of my winter favorites. Anchor has put out a different version of Our Special Ale every year for 37 years running. The unique recipe is always a secret, though at least one has made a comeback. (The first installment became Liberty Ale.) This year's goes lighter on the spices than others in recent years past, which is just fine by me. It smells like molasses cookies sprinkled with ginger. It's well balanced and perfect for nights you don't have the time or the inclination to commit to bigger bottles or ABVs.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Celebration Ale
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale (6.8% ABV) is something completely different for this time of year. Assertively hopped with the first Chinook, Cascade, and Centennial hops of the season, Celebration is a bright blast of citrus and pine. But to call it a hophead's Christmas beer would only tell half of the story. Equally terrific is the beer's bready English caramel malt frame. It's a perfect example of the hop-malt balance Sierra Nevada does so well.
St. Bernardus Christmas Ale
If I were forced to narrow it down just one favorite, forsaking all others, what would it be? St. Bernardus Christmas Ale (10.0% ABV)—The mother of all Christmas beers. The subtle blend of spices and flavors create complexity, and no single element dominates. It smells of banana, orange peel, a bit of coriander. In the sip, there's a bit of cherry with lively carbonation and a very dry finish. The alcohol is so well-incorporated, it's difficult to determine its strength. For me, it's near perfect.
What Christmas beers are on your wish list this year?
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Man punched by stranger just after midnight Saturday
Attack on Mifflin causes cut lip, police say
MADISON, Wis. — Police said a Madison man was attacked early Saturday morning while he was walking alone on Mifflin Street.
According to the report, a 20-year-old man was walking on the 500 block of West Mifflin Street just after midnight when a stranger punched him in the mouth. The victim fell to the ground and police said he sustained a couple more punches in the torso. The victim swung back and hit the attacker in his ribs, police said. The attacker fled after he was hit, police said.
The victim told police no words were exchanged during the alleged attack. Police said robbery did not appear to be a motive in the fight.
Police said the attacker was a white man between 20 and 25 years old wearing a red sleeveless sports jersey. Police added it may have been a Chicago Bulls jersey.
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I've been reading and reviewing digital security books seriously since 2000. This is the fifth time I've formally announced a winner; see 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006.
Compared to 2009 (15 books), 2010 was a good reading year -- 31 technical or security books, or my fifth highest total since 2000. Incidentally I read a decent number of "security history" books, meaning characterizations of "the scene." Many covered the 1990s and are fairly old, but I had always wanted to read them.
My ratings for 2010 can be summarized as follows:
- 5 stars: 14 books
- 4 stars: 9 books
- 3 stars: 5 books
- 2 stars: 3 books
- 1 stars: 0 books
Please remember that I try to avoid reading bad books. If I read a book and I give it a lower rating (generally 3 or less stars), it's because I had higher hopes.
Here's my overall ranking of the five star reviews; this means all of the following are excellent books.
- 14, 13, and 12. The Dragon's Quantum Leap, Decoding the Virtual Dragon, and Dragon Bytes by Timothy L Thomas, Foreign Military Studies Office. Thomas examines Chinese information warfare like no one else. Enlightening and frightening.
- 11. Intelligence, 4th Ed by Mark M. Lowenthal, CQ Press. Anyone interested in learning about the IC and how professional intelligence officers think and act will enjoy reading I4E.
- 10. The Book of Xen by Chris Takemura, No Starch. This could easily have been a very dry technical book, but TBOX is entertaining from the start.
- 9. IT Security Metrics by Lance Hayden, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media. If you want to introduce a comprehensive security metrics program in your environment, ISM will very skillfully offer one way to accomplish that goal. It's immensely practical and grounded in reality, and it will help you.
- 8. The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage, Walker & Company. Being a history major, I find The Victorian Internet (TVI) to be an enlightening antidote to chronocentricity, and I recommend it to anyone trying to better understand modern times through the lens of history.
- 7. The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling, Bantam. THC is one of my favorite books on hacker activity because it combines a narrative with the author's accounts of interactions with key individuals.
- 6. The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll, Gallery. I first read TCE 20 years ago when it was first published, but I was a high school student who couldn't appreciate the content. Now, as an IR team leader, I recognize that Cliff probably shares 25 IR lessons in the first 50 pages!
- 5. Hacking Exposed Wireless, 2nd Ed by Johnny Cache, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media. HEW2 is the best book on wireless security available. If you want to understand wireless -- and not just 802.11, but also Bluetooth, ZigBee, and DECT -- HEW2 is the book for you.
- 4. Wireshark Network Analysis by Laura Chappell, Laura Chappell University. Wireshark Network Analysis (WNA) is a very practical, thorough, comprehensive introduction to Wireshark, written in an engaging style and produced in a professional manner.
- 3. Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide, 2nd Ed by Neal Allen, Addison-Wesley Professional. NMATG brings a whole new dimension to network analysis, particularly at the lowest levels of the OSI model. I found topics covered in NMATG that were never discussed in other books.
- 2. The Rootkit Arsenal by Bill Blunden, Jones & Bartlett Publishers. "Wow." That summarizes my review of "The Rootkit Arsenal" (TRA) by Bill Blunden. If you're a security person and you plan to read one seriously technical book this year, make it TRA. If you decide to really focus your attention, and try the examples in the book, you will be able to write Windows rootkits. Even without taking a hands-on approach, you will learn why you can't trust computers to defend themselves or report their condition in a trustworthy manner.
And, the winner of the Best Book Bejtlich Read in 2010 award is...
- 1. Practical Lock Picking by Deviant Ollam, Syngress. My review said in part (emphasis added tonight):
Practical Lock Picking (PLP) is an awesome book. I don't provide physical testing services, but as a security professional familiar with Deviant's reputation I was curious to read PLP. Not only is PLP an incredible resource, it should also serve as a model text for others who want to write a good book. First, although the book is less than 250 pages, it is very reasonably priced. Second, Deviant wastes NO space. There is no filler material, background found in other readily available texts, reprinted Web site content, etc. Third, the writing is exceptionally clear and methodical, with extreme attention to detail and a master's approach to educating the reader. Finally, the diagrams, pictures, and figures are superb.
The Army FMSO office led publishers with 3 books this year, while traditional media publisher McGraw-Hill Osborne Media followed with 2.
Congratulations again to Syngress, publisher of the last three Best Book Bejtlich Read winners!
Thank you to all publishers who sent me books in 2010. I have plenty more to read in 2011.
Congratulations to all the authors who wrote great books in 2010, and who are publishing titles in 2011!


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U.K. Businesses Given Okay to Ban Crosses Worn by Employees
Two women will have their religious discrimination case heard at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
LONDON — The British government's efforts to allow employers to ban the wearing of the cross at work have been described as "discriminatory" and "theologically illiterate."
The government is fighting a case at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, following the efforts of two British women to establish their right to wear a small crucifix around their necks.
In 2006 Coptic Christian Nadia Eweida was suspended by British Airways for refusing to remove the cross, which the airline claimed breached the company's uniform code. Shirley Chaplin was barred from working on hospital wards by Royal Devon and Exeter National Health Service Trust after she refused to hide the cross she wore around her neck.
It is the first time the government has been forced to say whether or not it recognizes the right of Christians to wear a cross as a sign of their faith.
Reports suggest that they will argue that it is not a requirement of the Christian faith so Christians do not have the right to wear one. As such, they will argue that employees can dictate whether it is allowed and reprimand those who refuse to comply.
Cardinal Keith O'Brien has called on Catholics to wear their crosses and crucifixes with pride.
The leader of Scotland's Catholics used his Easter Sunday homily at St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, to assert that secular authorities should not fear the symbol of Christ's triumph.
He said, "Displaying the sign of the cross, the cross of Christ should not be a problem for others — but rather they should see in that sign an indication of our own desire to love and to serve all peoples in imitation of that love and service of Jesus Christ."
Drawing on Pope Benedict's 2010 address at Westminster Hall that religion is not a problem for legislators to solve, Cardinal O'Brien said those "words were a great clarion call for Christians at this present time to emphasize that no governments or public bodies should be frightened of Christians and their influence."
The cardinal continued, "Marginalization of religion should not be taking place at this present time — rather the opposite. Here in our own country where we do place a great emphasis on tolerance, surely our Christianity should be an indication to others of our desire, while living our Catholic Christian lives, to tolerate others who do not have our same values."
As such, he asked, "Why shouldn't each and every Christian similarly wear proudly a symbol of the cross of Christ on their garments each and every day of their lives?"
Commenting that he knew many wore a crucifix or a cross, he said, "Whether on a simple chain or pinned to a lapel, the cross identifies us as disciples of Christ and we should wear it with pride."
Neil Addison, a lawyer and national director of the Thomas More Legal Center in Warrington, England, said the government is arguing that it is permissible to ban the wearing of the Christian cross because it is not compulsory, unlike the Sikh turban or the Muslim hijab.
"My big worry with this approach is the idea that a secular government and secular courts are allowed to discriminate between religions based on theological points within the religions themselves," he said. "There seems no awareness that this distinction is itself discriminatory because it gives a privileged legal position to those religions with specific and detailed rules as [it goes] against those with more flexible rules."
Addison said that "the distinction misunderstands the nature of religious practice, which is often a complex mixture of rules, beliefs, customs and rituals that often may not be formally prescribed but which are, nevertheless, regarded by religious believers as integral parts of their faith."
For centuries, he added, "the wearing of a cross by Christians has been regarded as a fundamental custom and practice of most Christians, even though it has not been formally required as an obligation of faith."
"Therefore, to attempt to distinguish between the wearing of a cross and the wearing of a Sikh turban or Islamic hijab on the basis that one is required but the other is not is to create a completely theologically illiterate, artificial and unrealistic distinction. It is an approach that goes against the fundamental principle of a secular society with secular courts because it involves secular courts making religious decisions as to what is or is not compulsory in a religion," he concluded.
In a speech at Liverpool Hope University, Catholic peer Lord David Alton said we should all "wonder aloud whether religious freedom and the gains made in 1829, with the emancipation of Catholics and Jews, remain safe in a country whose courts say … that a young woman working for British Airways may no longer wear a small cross around her neck lest it causes offense."
"It would be a great loss to this nation if the foolish notion gained a foothold that faith has no place in the public square," he added.
The case has also attracted attention from outside the United Kingdom. Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Church Relations, told Russian television he regretted such developments.
"These people have not experienced persecution against the Church; they do not know what it is when your crosses are torn away from you," he said.
Claiming that "a grave mistake is made by today's Western liberals, who actually impose on free people the standards of a totalitarian regime," Metropolitan Hilarion said, "it is a sign of some madness and extreme moral decay when such norms are not only introduced but even discussed. What is wrong with a cross worn on one's neck? Who and how can it harm? Why can one wear beads, an amulet, an image, but a believer cannot put on a cross under his or her clothes? We will never agree with it and will fight against it."
Register correspondent James Kelly is a columnist for The Universe, the highest-circulation Catholic weekly in Britain and Ireland, and a researcher at the University of London.


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Strauss Zelnick may be adamant about not announcing the next Grand Theft Auto, but Dan Houser, in a lengthy interview with The Times of London, so casually mentions work on the next GTA that it sounds rather inevitable.
Writes The Times:
There's a Western game in the works for next spring, and the next GTA to think of. "We'll think of a city first, then the characters," says Houser. The script he will end up co-writing will run to around 1,000 pages, nearly ten times as much as a feature film.
There's plenty of other interesting quotes inside the interview, including Houser's reaction to being the punching bag/pariah every time a violent video game is brought up in popular culture. Also, and I didn't know this, but in The Ballad of Gay Tony, he and Sam put a saxophonist in the park in Liberty City as a tribute to their father, a jazz artist who plays the instrument.
The Driving Force Behind Grand Theft Auto [Times of London via GameDaily]


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Have you checked your Gmail lately? Better go check if you haven't in a while, because there's been some kind of "reset" at Google that's resulted in missing emails, labels, folders and themes.
Google has officially acknowledged the issue, which was first reported over at the Huffington Post earlier today. The issue, while harrowing for those it affects, has touched only .29% of Gmail users, according to Google.
The most recent update from the Google App Status blog reads thusly:
"Our team is continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by February 27, 2011 7:44:00 PM UTC-5 with more information about this problem. Thank you for your patience. For those Gmail users reporting missing messages, our engineers are working to restore them as soon as possible."
Are any of the Gizmodo faithful in that .29%? Are you going to be OK? [Huffington Post]


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1 Bob Dylan. Nobel Prize in Literature.
2 Ron Padgett. Hired to write three poems for the current film Paterson starring Adam Driver and Golshifteh Farahani.
3 Peter Balakian. Ozone Journal, about the Armenian genocide, won 2016 Pulitzer in Poetry.
4 Sherman Alexie. BAP 2015 'yellow-face controversy' editor's memoir drops this June.
5 Eileen Myles. Both her Selected Poems & Inferno: A Poet's Novel making MSM lists.
6 Claudia Rankine. Citizen: important, iconic, don't ask if it's good poetry.
7 Anne Carson. The Canadian's two latest books: Decreation & Autobiography of Red.
8 Paige Lewis. Her poem "The River Reflects Nothing" best poem published in 2016.
9 William Logan. In an age of poet-minnows he's the shark-critic.
10 Ben Mazer. "In the alps I read the shipping notice/pertaining to the almond and the lotus"
11 Billy Collins. The poet who best elicits a tiny, sheepish grin.
12 John Ashbery. There is music beneath the best of what this New York School survivor does.
13 Joie Bose. Leads the Bolly-Verse Movement out of Kolkata, India.
14 Mary Oliver. Her latest book, Felicity, is remarkably strong.
15 Daipayan Nair. "I am a poet./I kill eyes."
16 Nikky Finny. Her book making MSM notices is Head Off & Split.
17 Sushmita Gupta. [Hers the featured painting] "Oh lovely beam/of moon, will you, too/deny me/soft light and imagined romance?"
18 A.E. Stallings. Formalism's current star.
19 W.S. Merwin. Once the house boy of Robert Graves.
20 Mary Angela Douglas. "but God turns down the flaring wick/color by color almost/regretfully."
21 Sharon Olds. Her Pulitzer winning Stag's Leap is about her busted marriage.
22 Valerie Macon. Briefly N.Carolina Laureate. Pushed out by the Credentialing Complex.
23 George Bilgere. Imperial is his 2014 book.
24 Stephen Dunn. Norton published his Selected in 2009.
25 Marilyn Chin. Prize winning poet named after Marilyn Monroe, according to her famous poem.
26 Kushal Poddar. "The water/circles the land/and the land/my heaven."
27 Stephen Burt. Harvard critic's latest essay "Reading Yeats in the Age of Trump." What will hold?
28 Joe Green. "Leave us alone. Oh, what can we do?/The wild, wild winds go willie woo woo."
29 Tony Hoagland. Tangled with Rankine over tennis and lost.
30 Cristina Sánchez López. "I listen to you while the birds erase the earth."
31 Laura Kasischke. Awkward social situations portrayed by this novelist/poet.
32 CAConrad. His latest work is The Book of Frank.
33 Terrance Hayes. National Book Award in 2010, a MacArthur in 2014
34 Robin Coste Lewis. Political cut-and-paste poetry.
35 Stephen Cole. "And blocked out the accidental grace/That comes with complete surprise."
36 Martín Espada. Writes about union workers.
37 Merryn Juliette "And my thoughts unmoored/now tumbling/Like sand fleas on the ocean floor"
38 Daniel Borzutzky. The Performance of Being Human won the National Book Award in 2016.
39 Donald Hall. His Selected Poems is out.
40 Diane Seuss. Four-Legged Girl a 2016 Pulitzer finalist.
41 Vijay Seshadri. Graywolf published his 2014 Pulitzer winner.
42 Sawako Nakayasu. Translator of Complete Poems of Chika Sagawa.
43 Ann Kestner. Her blog since 2011 is Poetry Breakfast.
44 Rita Dove. Brushed off Vendler and Perloff attacks against her 20th century anthology.
45 Marjorie Perloff. A fan of Charles Bernstein and Frank O'hara.
46 Paul Muldoon. Moy Sand and Gravel won Pulitzer in 2003.
47 Frank Bidart. Winner of the Bollingen. Three time Pulitzer finalist.
48 Frederick Seidel. Compared "Donald darling" Trump to "cow-eyed Hera" in London Review.
49 Alice Notley. The Gertrude Stein of the St. Mark's Poetry Project.
50 Jorie Graham. She writes of the earth.
51 Maggie Smith. "Good Bones." Is the false—"for every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird"— poetry?
52 Adrian Matejka. His book The Big Smoke is about the boxer Jack Johnson.
53 Elizabeh Alexander. African American Studies professor at Yale. Read at Obama's first inauguration.
54 Derek Walcott. Convinced Elizabeth Alexander she was a poet as her mentor at Boston University.
55 Richard Blanco. Read his poem, "One Today," at Obama's second inauguration.
56 Louise Glück. A leading serious poet.
57 Kim Addonizio. Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life came out in 2016.
58 Kay Ryan. An Emily Dickinson who gets out, and laughs a little.
59 Lyn Hejinian. An elliptical poet's elliptical poet.
60 Vanessa Place. Does she still tweet about Gone With The Wind?
61 Susan Howe. Born in Boston. Called Postmodern.
62 Marie Howe. The Kingdom of Ordinary Time is her latest book.
63 Glynn Maxwell. British poetry influencing Americans? Not since the Program Era took over.
64 Robert Pinsky. Uses slant rhyme in his translation of Dante's terza rima in the Inferno.
65 David Lehman. His Best American Poetry (BAP) since 1988, chugs on.
66 Dan Sociu. Romanian poet of the Miserabilism school.
67 Chumki Sharma. The great Instagram poet.
68 Matthew Zapruder. Has landed at the N.Y. Times with a poetry column.
69 Christopher Ricks. British critic at Boston University. Keeping T.S. Eliot alive.
70 Richard Howard. Pinnacle of eclectic, Francophile, non-controversial, refinement.
71 Dana Gioia. Poet, essayist. Was Chairman of NEA 2003—2009.
72 Alfred Corn. The poet published a novel in 2014 called Miranda's Book.
73 Jim Haba. Noticed by Bill Moyers. Founding director of the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival.
74 Hessamedin Sheikhi. Young Iranian poet translated by Shohreh (Sherry) Laici
75 Pablo Larrain. Directed 2016 film Neruda.
76 Helen Vendler. Wallace Stevens champion. Helped Jorie Graham.
77 Kenneth Goldsmith. Fame for poetry is impossible.
78 Cate Marvin. Oracle was published by Norton in 2015.
79 Alan Cordle. Still the most important non-poet in poetry.
80 Ron Silliman. Runs a well-known poetry blog. A Bernie man.
81 Natalie Diaz. Her first poetry collection is When My Brother Was An Aztec.
82 D.A. Powell. Lives in San Francisco. His latest book is Repast.
83 Edward Hirsch. Guest-edited BAP 2016.
84 Dorianne Laux. Will always be remembered for "The Shipfitter's Wife."
85 Juan Felipe Herrera. Current Poet Laureate of the United States.
86 Patricia Lockwood. Her poem "Rape Joke" went viral in 2013 thanks to Twitter followers.
87 Kanye West. Because we all know crazy is best.
88 Charles Bernstein. Hates "official verse culture" and PWCs. (Publications with wide circulation.)
89 Don Share. Editor of Poetry.
90 Gail Mazur. Forbidden City is her seventh and latest book.
91 Harold Bloom. Since Emerson, Henry James, and T.S. Eliot are dead, he keeps the flame of Edgar Allan Poe hatred alive.
92 Alan Shapiro. Life Pig is his latest collection.
93 Dan Chiasson. Reviews poetry for The New Yorker.
94 Robert Hass. "You can do your life's work in half an hour a day."
95 Maurice Manning. One Man's Dark is a "gorgeous collection" according to the Washington Post.
96 Brian Brodeur. Runs a terrific blog: How A Poem Happens, of contemporary poets.
97 Donald Trump. Tweets-in-a-shit-storm keeping the self-publishing tradition alive.
98 Ben Lerner. Wrote the essay "The Hatred of Poetry."
99 Vidyan Ravinthiran. Editor at Prac Crit.
100 Derrick Michael Hudson. There's no fame in poetry.


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Whether it's out of necessity or desire, Americans continued to buy cars and trucks at a strong pace in September, according to industry analysts.
Data from dealerships across the nation show that new vehicle sales should hit an annual rate of 14.5 million vehicles for the month, continuing a rebound that began in June, according to J.D. Power and Associates and LMC Automotive.
Citi Investment Research also is forecasting a strong month, in the low- to mid-14 million range. Sales should be up 11 percent over September of last year as autos continued to be a bright spot in an otherwise confused and sputtering economy, according to LMC.
Much of the increase is driven by pent-up demand as people continue to replace aging cars and trucks that they've been driving since the Great Recession. The average age of a vehicle in the U.S. is approaching 11 years.
"Consumer willingness or need to overlook the economic uncertainty is the driving force behind the recent strength in light-vehicle sales," said Jeff Schuster, LMC's senior vice president of forecasting.
Pickup truck demand is helping to drive the sales, with September building on momentum from a strong August, Itay Michaeli, an industry analyst for Citi, wrote in a note to investors on Monday. Pickup truck sales always jump in the fall as drivers get ready for winter with four-wheel-drive vehicles in snowy states. But the increase also is coming from purchases by small businesses, fueled by a recovering housing market. Analysts say there's a direct correlation between stronger home building and pickup truck sales.
U.S. builders broke ground on 2.3 percent more homes and apartments in August than July, the best rate of single-family home construction since April 2010.
But there's bad economic news to counteract the good. Manufacturing activity has weakened, and the leading index of economic indicators dropped slightly in August. Hiring is still languishing and unemployment remains at 8.1 percent.
Yet LMC and J.D. Power are predicting that retail sales to individuals will be 12 percent higher than September of 2011, an indicator of a healthy auto sales market. The companies say subcompact, compact and midsize car retail sales should be up 25 percent or more in September.


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The inexcusable shooting of a police trainee by fellow officers suggests that the Baltimore City Police Department should partner with the National Rifle Association or some similar organization for gun safety instructions ("Campus officer shot in training," Feb. 13).
Anyone one who has ever taken a gun safety course knows there are certain basic rules for handling firearms. The shooting of the police trainee clearly indicates that at least three of these rules were broken:
First, always check to see whether a gun is loaded; second, treat all guns as if they were loaded; and third, never point a gun at anything that you don't intend to kill.
My daughter, who is developmentally delayed, has known these rules since she was 7. Her brother and sister understood them at an even younger age. How is it that those who are involved in police training do not?
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If you are a serious Dancing With The Stars fan and would love to visit Las Vegas, the time to do so might be after a Dancing With The Stars Season has ended? This past week, various news outlets from Las Vegas and the pros have been reporting on some of their fun in the sun and playing in the hotels and casinos. Such as….
Kym and Dmitry at the LAVO. Here the striking two are checking out a performance by Pharcyde Wednesday night. Dmitry was said to have danced to the sounds of DJ Crooked later in the night while Kym watched from a balcony.
Below is Maks celebrating at Encore Beach Club's 1 year Anniversary by the pool side at the beginning of last week.
But, what a week of sun makes. HERE is Maks all tanned up for Wet Republic's Hot Bodies Pool Party yesterday. Adding: Even more shots of Maks HERE! Way hot…I think I need a towel. 🙂
Maks also took part in the JCK Jewelry Convention while he was in the Entertainment Capital of the World. Check out the links in these tweets to see some of his new "MAKSIM" line which will be available soon on Amazon.
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And the fun doesn't stop there. Below are Peta and Karina partying at the Tao with Nicole Murphy and Michael Strahan. Damian Whitewood was there as well who called them his "lifeguards".
Later in the evening, Karina wore an equally sexy outfit to host a party at the Tao night club.
Lastly, here is Cheryl hanging out with Jack Ketsoyan at the Palazzo celebrating her birthday yesterday. She looks fantastic, doesn't she? This picture will make my Dad's day again.
What a fun time! Who wants to pay Las Vegas a visit after the Season 13 Finale is over? 🙂


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The Army and Vietnam
Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. The Army and Vietnam. Reprint. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Change is inevitable and organizations must learn to adapt. Author Andrew Krepinevich, Jr. asserts in this work of history and analysis of the United States military experience during the Vietnam War that the army failed prepare or adapt to new circumstances. Instead it prepared and proceeded to fight the type of war to which it had become accustom, a war like that of World War II in a European theater.
Krepinevich asks a remarkable question worth repeating.
"How could the army of the most powerful nation on Earth, materially supported on a scale unprecedented in history, equipped with the most sophisticated technology in an age when technology was assumed the role of a god of war, fail to emerge victorious against a numerically inferior force of lightly armed irregulars?"
Analyzing this question gives the book its purpose. His conclusion is that the nation's civilian and military leadership failed to adapt. In so doing they ensure that the "United States Army was neither trained nor organized to fight effectively in an insurgency conflict environment." At issue is what Krepinevich calls "The Army Concept" of war which he defines as "the Army's perception of how wars ought to be waged and is reflected in the way the Army organizes and trains its troops for battle." A key conclusion is that the army's previous experience, which would help to inform "The Army Concept," simply didn't prepare it for a counterinsurgency. While the U.S. Army became masterful at the World War II form of battle, it did not prepare for the deployment of light infantry formations, firepower restraint, and the need to resolve political and social issues with a country targeted by insurgents. Interestingly, Krepinevich also concludes that the ability to adapt to this type of war should have been maintained in the collective military for we had been insurgents ourselves during the American Revolution. Likewise, America fought the equivalent of an insurgency against Native Americans, and guerillas during the Philippine War. But the author contends that Army leaders chose to focus rather on more conventional forms of war.
Krepinevich structures his text chronologically into three parts. The first reviews the period from 1954 – 1965 when the United States served as advisor to the South Vietnamese. The second part covers the period from 1965 – 1968 during which time the U.S. had committed a significant number of troops. His final section covers the years of withdrawal, 1968 – 1973. The author provides a thorough notes section. This work's intended audience is broad. It's appropriate for military historians certainly, as well as today's military and civilian leadership and strategy makers. Given the evolution of counterinsurgency as the norm for warfare in today's world, the lessons to be learned all the more urgent. The author of the forward for the work, Colonel George K. Osborn III, also points out an additional audience, students of organizational change within large bureaucratic organizations. I couldn't agree more.
Dr. Krepinevich is a graduate of West Point and at the time of the book's publication was a Major in the U.S. Army. He holds an MPA and Ph.D. from Harvard University and is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He presides over the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, an independent policy research institute established to promote innovative thinking about defense planning and investment strategies for the 21st century. He is both author and lecturer on U.S. military strategy and policy. His recent works include Strategy for a Long Peace; Transforming America's Alliances; The Quadrennial Defense Review: Rethinking the U.S. Military Posture, and How to Win in Iraq. His has published work in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Issues in Science and Technology, Joint Forces Quarterly, The Naval War College Review, and Strategic Review. He is also a contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and has appeared on each of the major networks, National Public Radio, and The McLaughlan Group. He has lectured at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, the U.S. Military Academy, the Air University, the Army and Naval War Colleges, Europe's Marshall Center, and France's Ecole Militaire. His book, The Army and Vietnam, received the 1987 Furniss Award. Krepinevich's book is sure to be provocative. As an overview of America's engagement in Southeast Asia and the lessons learned there, it is excellent.


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Iwar Bergkwist
Iwar Bergkwist is educated at Teater- och Operahögskolan in Gothenburg. In 1981 he joined Stora Teatern's chorus and became a soloist in 1985. He has sung a number of large tenor parts in both operas and operettas, e.g. Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Iros in The Return of Odysseus, Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Prince Ramiro in La Cenerentola, Fenton in Falstaff, the main role in Werther, Lensky in Eugen Onegin and Boni in The Czardas Princess.
Iwar Bergkwist's roles at the Göteborg Opera include Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Narraboth in Salome, which he also sang at the Helsinki Opera, Zefirino in Il Viaggio a Reims, Camille de Rossillon in The Merry Widow, which was also shown on TV, Bob Boles in Peter Grimes and Gaston in La Traviata. During the season 1995-96 he made his debut as a director with the staging of Lars Johan Werle's newly composed opera Äppelkriget at the Göteborg Opera.
In addition to his opera career, Iwar has made several translations and adaptations of musical dramas and also written librettos. He also took a leave of absence from the opera and worked as a teacher, director and principal at Teater- och Operahögskolan in Gothenburg. In the spring 2003 he returned to the Göteborg Opera as Achilles in La Belle Helene, where he was also responsible for the lyrics.
Iwar Bergkwist has performed on several stages outside of Sweden, and is a frequent guest at the Helsingörsteater in Århus.


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Product Manager - Far East
- Recruiter
- Red Planet Recruitment
- Location
- London, England
- Salary
- up to £45,000 per annum + £15k bonus + benefits
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- 16 May 2019
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Product Manager - Far East. Reputable and highly successful award winning Tour Operator is looking for a Far East Product Manager with experience of the territory. The Product Manager role operates in a fast paced commercial environment and you will be responsible for developing and expanding our client's luxury brand for their Far East programme/market range. This Far East Product Manager position will focus on revenue and profit generation through strategic product management and development. The Product Manager will report to senior management where you'll define and lead the Far East strategy for this leading travel brand.
Far East Product Manager Role & Responsibilities:
- Develop our clients existing and established brand & identify strategic new areas of development and expansion within the FE territory
- Working with key suppliers and contracting new opportunities and other travel related services
- Accountable for the direct negotiation, planning, purchasing and contracting of the very best rates that are available, ensuring business targets are always delivered with exceptional results
- Identify market trends and defining potential sources of supply to satisfy consumer demand for our client's Far East product range
- General product management & growth including the monitoring of Far East sales and competitor analysis
- Secure marketing funds & tactical offers from Far East suppliers for promotional activities, along with continual exclusive tactical negotiations with ground product and feedback to the commercial managers
- Identify and pursue new opportunities in existing areas of responsibility, along with possessing the confidence to communicate and present your company at all levels of business
- The role is also key in orchestrating excellent communication and engagement within the business and supplier network
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- Far East Product Manager with a track record and strong understanding of the territory and key players within the market
- Possess outstanding commercial and negotiation skills which will have been gained within a successful Far East Product Management role
- Proven interpersonal skills with ability to demonstrate passion and infuse others with it
- Proactive and results driven, with the drive and initiative to successfully push product forward within a competitive market place, delivering on commitments and results
- Strong analytical skill set, a keen eye for detail with the ability to rise above and see the bigger picture
- Methodical and logical in approach, able to multi-task and act on own initiative
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I've got some bad news and some good news, gleaned from the recent LIMRA Life Insurance Conference in New Orleans.
First the bad news, some of which I imagine you've heard before. The life insurance industry is selling almost 30 percent fewer individual life policies than it did in 1990, and the number of individual and group policies in force has declined from 389 million in 1990 to 291 million in 2009, according to the ACLI Life Insurers Fact Book. The number of insurance companies in the market has dropped precipitously — from 2,195 in 1990 to 946 in 2009.
Not done yet — here's more: Back in 1984, 62 percent of Americans owned individual life insurance policies. In 2010, just 44 percent had individual coverage (Source: LIMRA 2010). As the total producer workforce has remained flat at 313,000, the number of independent producers declined from 163,409 in 2007 to 149,187 in 2010 (Source: LIMRA U.S. Producer Census).
Carolyn M. Johnson, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Protective Life and president of West Coast Life Insurance Company, covered all of these statistics while providing an executive outlook on the life insurance industry during the conference's opening general session on April 16.
See also: IUL and the need for clones in New Orleans
Now for the good news. Johnson hammered home that the bar is low right now for life insurance in America, but she wasn't doing so just to be a "Debbie Downer." She argued that the current state of the market means there is actually a great opportunity for the life insurance industry to connect with consumers, who as we all know are largely uninsured or underinsured.
At least consumers realize they need coverage, even if they haven't yet been compelled to do anything about it. The 2013 Insurance Barometer Study from the LIFE Foundation and LIMRA revealed that 85 percent of consumers agree that most people need life insurance, and LIMRA's 2010 Life Ownership Study found that 50 percent of adults admitted they need more life insurance — that's 117 million prospects!
Consumer confidence in the life insurance industry is low, which, as Johnson pointed out, inherently means there is a lot of room for improvement. Service can improve. Complicated products and confusing terminology can be simplified. Studies show consumers don't know how much life insurance coverage costs, but they think it's more expensive than it really is. They don't realize that the price of coverage on term products has actually come down substantially since the late 1980s. For example, back in 1987 a 45-year-old male, best class, would have paid $1,519 in annual premium for a 15-year term life policy with a $1 million death benefit. In 2011, the same coverage would only cost $894, or $74.50 per month.
Johnson emphasized that the industry needs to do a better job of packaging and communicating that affordability. I've said before that I love hearing ads on the radio or TV from life insurance quote aggregators or carriers that work to dispel the misperception that many people have about the cost of coverage. When consumers hear that "a 40-year-old male in excellent health can get a $500,000 10-year term life policy for $21 a month," or "a 41-year-old female in excellent health can get a $350,000 10-year term life policy for under $16 a month," it not only raises awareness about life insurance, it also shows that coverage might not cost as much as the consumer thought.
As life expectancies (and operating efficiencies) have increased, term life rates have decreased. Between 1994 and 1999, the Insurance Information Institute reported that premium rates for term life insurance saw an average annual drop of 15 percent. Between 2000 and 2007, rates dropped about 4 percent annually. While the rates aren't declining so much in recent years, they aren't rising, either. But the public generally doesn't realize how much better a deal term life has become since the late 1980s.
Anyone else think this is a good story that has flown under the radar for too long?
For more from Brian Anderson, see:
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A sustainable lifestyle involves consciousness-raising about the relationship between consumption today and the conditions for future generations. Sustainable development requires a balance between mankind's consumption, the environment and the available resources. Sustainable thinking must be a natural reflex for the architect of the future. The architect works on the basis of a new order where the building as a whole meets the requirements and challenges of a sustainable future. Sustainable architecture incorporates environmentally sound measures and new 'intelligent' materials in an aesthetic and social programme.
These are the crucial themes elucidated in the big architectural exhibition at the Louisiana in the summer of 2009.
Architecture is facing what is perhaps the greatest new technological and aesthetic departure since modernism. But how is this manifested in down-to-earth as well as more sophisticated projects which together fulfil society's human and technological visions? And has there been an architectural and artistic response?
At present, epoch-making changes are taking place in architecture. New visions, the use of new, different construction materials, alternative structures and revolutionary proposals for the solutions to challenges when it comes to the development of sustainable cities, landscapes and environments, are on the agenda. Concepts like 'paradigm shift' have been used – that is, the idea that a new world-picture is emerging, starting in the 21st century. In this world-picture sustainability is a key concept. Louisiana's exhibition Green Architecture for the Future takes the pulse of the process of transformation that is in full swing, and the exhibition will show some of the complex initiatives and future scenarios that are already being drawn up on the global scale.


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Daily Slice: Urbano Pizza Bar, Los Angeles
A different slice profiled each day.
Daily Slice gives a quick snapshot each weekday of a different slice or pie that the folks at the Serious Eats empire have enjoyed lately.
While Mozza and Antica Pizzeria have set the benchmark for Los Angeles pizza, Urbano Pizza Bar just maybe the perfect hybrid of the two. Hailing from Nancy Sliverton's La Brea Bakery, Master Baker Brad Winnaman cultivates a light Neapolitan-style crust, with a mottled brown edge—much like the currently shuttered Antica Pizzeria.
The subtly smoked mozzarella permeates the Carciofi pizza ($14). Strewn with marinated artichokes on a bed of crushed tomatoes, it could use some salt, but don't expect it to be readily availble. The wet center requires a knife and fork but the outer crust holds up well to the juicy chunks of artichoke.
In LA, burrata is the king of cheese. But its prevalence has lead to a lackluster explosion of overpriced soggy pies. Thankfully this is not the case with Urbano's Selvatica pizza ($14).The pie leads with a mellow nuttiness and the sweetly developed flavors of pine nuts and roasted cherry tomatoes, but then it follows up with a the powerful oomph of rich pesto. Burrata rounds it all, ensuring that not a crumb will be left behind.
PS: If this column was called "Daily Appetizer," you'd be reading a gushing review of a roasted artichoke...
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Looking back at and consolidating the year in exhibitions is one of the more challenging tasks an art writer faces. Tracking trips to shows throughout the year, and more importantly, the evolution of your feelings about them, is a daunting, sometimes insurmountable task. While in Europe this spring and summer, I was lucky enough to view some of the exhibitions I found more momentous and personally resonant. Starting in Italy with the 54th Venice Biennale, I traveled up to Switzerland through Geneva and Basel, heading next to the UK and landing finally in Berlin. The list below reflects both personal favorites and those that I felt to be important in the confluence of art and technology.
Josephine Pryde, "Embryos and Estate Agents: L'Arte de Vivre" at Chisenhale, London
British artist Josephine Pryde bears the unique ability to successfully navigate both photography and sculpture, two mediums which seem almost diametrically opposed. Up until this year I'd only been familiar with Pryde's sculptures of half-finished baskets precariously suspended by butcher hooks, shown at Galerie Neu in Berlin last year; as well as her strange, oversized macro photographs of fabric, featured at Reena Spaulings in 2009. For her presentation at Chisenhale, "Embryos and Estate Agents: L'Arte de Vivre," Pryde presented two sets of photographs. The first takes medical images of fetuses, superimposing them in Photoshop against barren desert landscapes; the second stages stock photography-style portraits of young, alternative-looking women contemplating whether or not they're pregnant. Beyond Pryde's fascinating material practice is her confrontation of oft-taboo, extremely personal, female-specific issues generally elided in contemporary art discourse.
Cory Arcangel at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York / Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Arcangel Fever spread around early spring 2011 as his Whitney retrospective drew near, the artist being asked by a vertiginous number of New York media outlets to grace them with pre-opening press. The show sparked some lukewarm reviews


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PORTLAND, Ore. — Two of rebuilt Toronto FC's new recruits came up huge Saturday night, as Peri Marosevic and Danny Koevermans scored their first goals in red to help TFC rally in the final 20 minutes to stun the Portland Timbers for a 2-2 draw at JELD-WEN Field.
The result snaps a four-game losing streak for Toronto, while the Timbers — who nursed a 2-0 advantage until the 71st minute — have failed to win a home game since May 16 and are now winless in nine of their last 10 games. And in the last month-and-a-half at home, Portland have squandered a 3-1 second-half lead in a 3-3 tie against New York and leads of 1-0 and 2-1 in a 3-2 loss against Seattle.
Portland, trying to ignite a second-half playoff run, came into the match sporting a fresh look with both Mike Chabala and Lovel Palmer — new players obtained in a trade with Houston — included as part of a number of changes to the starting lineup.
The changes seem to have worked early — at least against the team with the worst defensive record in MLS — as forward Eddie Johnson, making just his second start of the season, got the Timbers on the board first off a counter.
In the 22nd minute, Toronto attacker Joao Plata put a shot off the left goalpost. The ball eventually fell to Sal Zizzo, who advanced to Diego Chara on the left wing as the TFC defense swarmed around him. That enabled Chara to find Johnson open in the middle of the field. The English forward promptly capitalized with a blast that sailed just inside the goalpost and past a diving Stefan Frei.
Portland added another roughly 10 minutes after the half after Chara was dragged down by Toronto defender Andy Iro in the box. Head official Kevin Stott pointed to the spot, and captain Jack Jewsbury continued the celebrations at JELD-WEN Field by converting past Frei in the 57th minute to give the Timbers a 2-0 lead.
But then Portland fell prey again to their habit of squandering leads at home. Toronto's first goal came in the 71st minute when the Timbers failed to clear in the box, allowing the ball to rattle around in front of Perkins' goal. Koevermans pounced on the loose ball and sent a cross to Marosevic — signed by TFC on Friday after his release from FC Dallas — for the cool finish.
Eleven minutes later, the Reds completed their unlikely comeback when Plata sent a cross into the box that Koevermans right-footed past a diving Troy Perkins for his second MLS goal since joining the team earlier this month.
Portland, who walked off the pitch to a spattering of boos from the normally loyal Timbers Army, next play host next to the first-place LA Galaxy on Aug. 3 before three road games.
Toronto next travel to Nicaragua to face Real Estelí on Aug. 2 in the second leg of their preliminary CONCACAF Champions League tie before heading to D.C. United four days later.
Scoring Summary:
POR -- Eddie Johnson 1 (Diego Chara 2, Sal Zizzo 1) 23
POR -- Jack Jewsbury 6 (penalty kick) 57
TOR -- Peri Marosevic 1 (unassisted) 71
TOR -- Danny Koevermans 2 (Joao Plata 4) 81
Misconduct Summary:
TOR -- Ty Harden (caution; Reckless Tackle) 39
POR -- Diego Chara (caution; Reckless Tackle) 46+
POR -- Mike Chabala (caution; Reckless Tackle) 51
Toronto FC -- Stefan Frei, Ty Harden (Javier Martina 68), Ashtone Morgan, Richard Eckersley, Andy Iro, Julian de Guzman (Terry Dunfield 61), Torsten Frings, Ryan Johnson, Nick Soolsma (Peri Marosevic 46), Danny Koevermans, Joao Plata.
Substitutes Not Used: Danleigh Borman, Doneil Henry, Matt Stinson, Milos Kocic.
Portland Timbers -- Troy Perkins, Lovel Palmer, Eric Brunner, David Horst, Mike Chabala, Sal Zizzo, Jack Jewsbury, Diego Chara, Kalif Alhassan (Kenny Cooper 74), Darlington Nagbe (Jorge Perlaza 82), Eddie Johnson.
Substitutes Not Used: Mamadou Danso, James Marcelin, Brian Umony, Rodney Wallace, Adin Brown.
Referee: Kevin Stott
Referee's Assistants: Adam Wienckowski; Brian Poeschel
4th Official: Matthew Foerster
Attendance: 18,627
Time of Game: 1:54
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — John Force won his record 16th Funny Car season title Sunday, beating daughter Courtney Force in the final round in the NHRA Toyota Nationals.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — John Force won his record 16th Funny Car season title Sunday, beating daughter Courtney Force in the final round in the NHRA Toyota Nationals.
The 64-year-old Force has won three straight events and four overall this season to push his record career total to 138.
"I read an article this morning about being humble, but right now I'd like to scream and shout," Force said. "If there is anything I've ever done right in my life, it's been a team effort."
He won the final with a 4.062-second run at 310.63 mph.
"We've won the championship and we're glad to have done so, man we're having fun. ... I don't want to end my career at 16. I want to end it at 17 at least."
Force beat Gary Densham, Del Worsham and Alexis DeJoria to reach the final round.
"I'd like to scream and say, 'Gee, it was me,' but the truth is (crew chief) Jimmy Prock and the team he's got around him is unbelievable," Force said. "It's a team effort and that's what I'm really proud of, holding together when it looked like we were falling apart."
Matt Smith also won at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to wrap up his second Pro Stock Motorcycle season title. Antron Brown won the Top Fuel event, and Shane Gray topped the Pro Stock field.
The season-ending Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals Nov. 7-10 in Pomona, Calif.
Smith topped Jerry Savoie with a 6.991 at 192.08 on a Buell. Smith also has won three straight events and four this year.
"This team has been awesome and winning this championship, it's great," Smith said. "I don't want to sound too confident, but we've almost been unstoppable lately."
Antron Brown edged Clay Millican at 3.782 and 324.51.
"Hats off to all the boys," Brown said. We've been working really hard."
Brown moved from fifth to second in the standings, 102 points behind Shawn Langdon. Langdon was in a position to clinch the title, but fell to Millican in the semifinals.
"Anything can happen," Brown said. "It's never done until the last race of the year."
Gray beat V. Gaines with a 6.699 at 206.89 in a Chevy Camaro for his first victory of the year.
"We really needed this one," Gray said. "I'm looking forward to going to Pomona. I think I'll be even stronger there."


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Scott Calls on DeVos to Testify About Stalled 'Borrower Defense' Claims after Judge's Contempt Finding | Politico Pro
The chairman of the House education committee wants Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to testify about pending loan forgiveness claims by former Corinthian Colleges students after a federal judge last week held her in contempt and imposed a $100,000 fine for improperly collecting some of those loans.
Backlog of student loan fraud claims tops 210K, with processing stalled | Politico Pro
The number of federal student loan borrowers who are waiting for the Education Department to make a decision on their application for loan forgiveness based on alleged fraud by their college now exceeds 200,000 borrowers, according to new federal data released today.
Defrauded by Colleges, Students Wait in Vain for Federal Help | Austin Statesman
In 2013, Morgan Marler decided she wanted a career in computers. At the time, the now-29-year-old was living in Arlington and looking for a job that would pay well and give her a purpose. She enrolled in ITT Technical Institute, one of the nation's largest for-profit schools. It had been in business for 50 years and had eight campuses in Texas, a fact that reassured Marler. Counselors told her she could expect to make $60,000 with a degree in network system administration.
DeVos Sued by Students Seeking College Loan Relief | Detroit Free Press
Former students of predatory, for-profit colleges are suing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, claiming the U.S. Department of Education intentionally refused to process their applications for federal loan relief. According to the Huffington Post, DeVos halted the implementation of the Borrower Defense to Repayment regulation in June 2017, leaving the plaintiffs of the lawsuit, and many other students who were not listed, in crippling debt and without a clear path to financial recovery.
I'm Drowning In $120K Of Student Debt And I'm Suing Betsy DeVos To Make Her Fix That | HuffPost
I am drowning in more than $120,000 of student debt after being defrauded by a for-profit college, and I refuse to wait for relief from the Trump administration. That's why I am going on the offense and suing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. More than 158,000 other former students are doing the same.
At the US Education Department, Applications for Loan Forgiveness Languish | CNBC
When Morgan Marler's 5-year-old daughter, Lilian, asks her why she doesn't work anymore, Marler doesn't know what to say. "I can't explain debt to her," Marler, 29, said. "And how I went to school and it was all for nothing." Marler attended ITT Technical Institute, a now-shuttered for-profit school, between 2013 and 2016.
Lawsuit Accuses For-Profit Colleges of Deceptive Practices | Telegram
Growing up on a farm in Lunenburg, Jessica Jacobson dreamed of becoming the first in her family to go to college. She graduated from Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School in Fitchburg in 2002, and went on to get an associate degree in web design from Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner.
For-Profit College Students are Waiting 958 Days for Loan Relief | CNN
Morgan Marler had trouble finding a job when she graduated from ITT Tech with an associate's degree in information technology in 2016. "I'd get an interview, but after they saw my degree was from ITT Tech — they didn't necessarily laugh at me — but I could tell they held it against me," Marler, 29, told CNN this week.
Nearly 900 Student-Loan Borrowers Demand Justice — 'I Don't Feel Like I Should Pay for an Education I Never Received' | MarketWatch
After years working in "dead-end" jobs, Morgan Marler decided to pursue a degree that would help her start a career working with computers. In 2013, Marler enrolled at ITT Technical Institutes feeling convinced they'd help her land a job once she graduated. "They told me about the fact that they do career placement assistance for life," she said.
Betsy DeVos Is Getting Sued Over Student Debt | Teen Vogue
When Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) questioned then nominee for Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos during a confirmation hearing in 2017, DeVos — often cited as the richest member of Donald Trump's cabinet — seemed to have no personal experience with the federal student-loan application process. "Have you ever taken out a student loan from the federal government to help pay for college?" Warren asked DeVos, to which the billionaire replied, "I have not."


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Women: Stop Apologizing So Much At Work!
I have a problem: I apologize all the time. I apologize when waiters screw up my order, I apologize when I trip and hurt myself, I apologize when someone else's dog yaps at my dog (my God, I've even brought my dog into this sick situation!).
I don't know when it started. I was definitely one of those kids who didn't like to get in trouble growing up, and I probably thought saying "I'm sorry" would get me out of bad situations - but this has gotten excessive.
According to a new study from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, I'm not the only one with this problem. A very blatant gender gap emerges when measuring just how often men and women apologize and the reasoning behind it. While many women say "sorry" as automatically as they say "hello" and "goodbye," they also apologize for the littlest things.
Take me, for example. I've started apologizing to my yoga teacher when I can't hold my position in my beginner yoga class. This is not good.
The thinking behind our apologies
"By taking responsibility for things that aren't your fault, you denigrate your self-esteem," Linda Sapadin, PhD, author of Master Your Fears: How to Triumph over Your Worries and Get on with Your Life, tells Fitness Magazine.
"Women are biologically wired for harmony and nurturing. For most women, the apology is a way of keeping the peace," says Judi Clements of Judi Clements Training & Development.
She cites a study where a group of young girls are offered one pickle. Unlike the boys, who each fight to take the pickle themselves, the girls go to great lengths to split the pickle equally. Woman would rather do really tough things - like share a single pickle - than make a mistake or upset someone.
Women can really have an auto-apology problem.
"Men aren't actively resisting apologizing because they think it will make them appear weak or because they don't want to take responsibility for their actions," said study researcher Karina Schumann, a doctoral student in social psychology at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. "It seems to be that when they think they've done something wrong, they do apologize just as frequently as when women think they've done something wrong. It's just that they think they've done fewer things wrong."
The repercussions
Personally, I think I apologize a lot because it makes me seem polite. I may do it in hope that the other person will feel bad and forgive me of this awful thing I did, like spilling a little water on the floor or picking up their coffee at Starbucks by accident. In certain settings, this won't hurt me, but in the office, this can be a bad move.
"It seems that if many men are issuing apologies without understanding why, and women are both issuing and demanding apologies with greater frequency, there is an obvious misalignment. This can be dangerous, particularly because of the power relations involved in being the apologizer versus the aggrieved," writes Alison Fairbrother of Politics Daily.
Bottom line: your coworkers will start to respect you less if you're constantly saying, "I'm sorry."
So, what can we do to get over this?
1. Keep track of how many times you say "sorry." Look at when you're using it, how often and why. Are there situations that really merit it, or do you act like you killed someone when you step on someone's foot?
2. Save your "sorries." Don't waste a good "I'm sorry" when you forgot to put an extra sugar in your friend's coffee. Save it for when a friend really needs actual sympathy, because your "sorry" loses value when you overuse it.
3. Say "sorry" in code. Most of us were raised to be polite, so we do feel like we have to apologize when we're late or when we inconvenience someone. At work, where your "sorry" is detrimental, come up with a different way to say it. If you're late for a meeting try, "Thank you for your patience; I appreciate it."
Do you think women apologize too much? Share your thoughts in the comments!
Meredith Lepore is the former editor of the women's career site The Grindstone. Before that, she was on staff at Wall Street Letter and Business Insider and was a contributing writer for LearnVest. She earned her Masters in Magazine, Newspaper and Online Journalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University after graduating with a degree in Brain and Cognitive Science from the University of Rochester. Meredith resides in New York full-time and enjoys reading, jogging, shopping and playing with her puppy, Otis.


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It's no secret that I really like electronic music. Last night, The Crystal Method came to town to throw down a 5-hour-long DJ set at Lucky Strike Lanes. I had to go, and I dragged commuterDude with me. We carpooled.
Even though Lucky Strike Lanes is a bit of an upscale venue, it didn't stop the ravers from coming out to play.
And maybe cDude got into it a little, too...
It was a great show and of course they threw down some TCM originals mixed in with a lot of other stuff, like only they could.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
It's no secret that I really like electronic music. Last night, The Crystal Method came to town to throw down a 5-hour-long DJ set at Lucky Strike Lanes. I had to go, and I dragged commuterDude with me. We carpooled.
6 comments:
- Unknown said...
Those pics are great. I love electronic trip hop and the downtempo lounge stuff. I'll have to checkout TCM.
- August 01, 2010 9:13 PM
- GhostRider said...
I saw them twice in Orlando at the House of Blues...the first time, one of TCM guys fell off the stage and broke his arm. Good times!!!
- August 01, 2010 11:07 PM
- Apertome said...
I like electronic music too, although usually not as much the dancy stuff.
That said, I've been a fan of The Crystal Method since their first album. They've come out with some great stuff. I was disappointed in their newest album, but admittedly I haven't heard it enough for it to really settle in.
It must have been awesome to see them. I'm sorta surprised they did a DJ set and not a live PA. Oh, and 5 hours -- woah!
- August 01, 2010 11:48 PM
- Noah said...
The newest TCM album I have is their soundtrack from the movie "London" - it was okay. I haven't picked up their newest, though. Vegas and Tweekend, though... Solid albums in my book.
Still, I'm not sure if I could handle 5 hours of nothing but TCM. Orbital? Probably. Their stuff is varied enough. TCM would get old after 90 minutes.
Keith and I showed up at about 9:30 and the house DJ was on the decks until a little after 10. I think we finally bailed at about 1:30 in the morning, but TCM was scheduled to spin until 3.
- August 02, 2010 7:14 AM
- JBell said...
Nice to find your blog. I've moved from Lawrence, KS to Midtown. I commute 365 in Lawrence on fixed for snow and -15 days, steel cross bike for the rest. My route in KC will be from Midtown (home) to JCCC for night classes. I start this August 16th. Any sage advice? I'm a little nervous to begin, but am ready to learn. My plan so far is to lock-it all up and good. As for a route, I was going to head out on a scooter for some road reconasense (sp?). Anyway, just a hello from a new reader.
- August 02, 2010 1:01 PM
- Noah said...
What time does your class start? That will make all the difference in the world. If it starts between 5pm and 7pm, there are a few things I'd do differently than if it starts earlier or later than that. You can kind of get to the Indian Creek Trail via the Trolley Track Trail if you know the secret back way between the two of them. Then you can hop on Indian Creek Parkway and take 115th across to Quivira. That's the most off-road route. Unfortunately, all the on-road routes are going to have a few perilous stretches due to how Johnson County gets broken up into chunks by major highways such as US-69, I-35 and I-435
- August 02, 2010 8:55 PM
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